Chapter 281 Stingy Li Ye
There was no point in talking to each other. Wu Jinyuan said she would take up five minutes of Li Ye's time, but in less than two minutes, the two of them parted ways unhappily.
Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin hurried over and asked nervously, "Li Ye, how did you offend that foreign guest?"
"Offending foreign guests?"
Li Ye asked doubtfully, "No? At most, we just didn't have a good conversation, but there's definitely no offense."
"No,"
Yang Yumin shook his head slowly, looking at Wu Jinyuan's back as she walked away, and said firmly, "You must have offended him. Based on my many years of experience in observing women, you must have offended him quite a bit."
“Hahahaha~”
Li Huaisheng and Li Ye couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Li Ye said with disdain: "Brother Lao Yang, this is not the way to brag. You are in your twenties and don't even have a partner. How can you say that you have experience in observing women carefully? It's more like you have been single for twenty years."
Yang Yumin waved his hand seriously and said, "Those involved are confused, but those who are on the sidelines can see things more clearly. It is precisely because I have never fallen in love that I can see the real things.
Just like when the foreign guest called you just now, his face was full of smiles and joy, but in the blink of an eye, he became as cold and indifferent as water. Can't you really notice the difference?"
"I didn't notice it."
Li Ye answered with a tone that was not in his mind. With his keen observation, he could certainly sense the change in Wu Jinyuan's annoyance, but he definitely couldn't agree at this moment.
Wen Leyu was the only one who didn't come to school today, otherwise she would have questioned Li Ye after hearing this.
Young and wealthy female foreign guest, are you going to play a version of "Love in Lushan Mountain"? If you dare to have any dirty thoughts, I will scratch you to death, you shameless and heartless man.
"Alas~"
Yang Yumin sighed and said regretfully, "Li Ye, you really missed an opportunity. Based on my experience, if you had just asked her to eat at Donglaishun, she would have most likely agreed. Let's not talk about anything else. Your chances of studying abroad have greatly increased, don't you know?"
“.”
Li Ye couldn't help but hissed and looked at Yang Yumin seriously, wondering if this guy really had such abilities?
Just now, Wu Jinyuan really asked Li Ye to have dinner with her.
But the next moment, Yang Yumin grabbed Li Ye's arm and said, "Brother, don't regret it. Although the foreign guests have left, Lao Li and I are willing to accompany you to eat Donglaishun. It doesn't need to be too much, just three catties per person."
Li Huaisheng also grabbed Li Ye's other arm and said with great sorrow: "Five thousand US dollars, five thousand US dollars! A wealthy man like you who spends money like water, you won't care about a meal at Donglaishun, right?"
“.”
It’s confirmed, these two guys just want to eat for free, how can they have the ability to observe carefully?
"Donglaishun is too far. Let me treat you to mutton noodles today and we can go to Donglaishun another day!"
"You stingy guy, hot pot for noodles"
"When have I, Li Ye, ever been stingy? You guys don't mind eating from a hot pot in the hot summer. I'll treat you guys to roast duck tomorrow."
"That's better. Come on, come on, I'll have to eat three big bowls of noodles. I feel so sorry for this local rich man. He really doesn't take money seriously!"
Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin urged Li Ye to hurry up, as if if he left too late, Li Ye would donate the money in his pocket again.
It’s not their fault. After all, five thousand dollars is very powerful these days.
After the comic book "Homeward Bound" was published, Hong Kong Island would send some foreign exchange to Peking University every month, and the university would generously allocate some to the Lonely Army Literary Society.
Li Ye, Yang Yumin and Li Huaisheng were the main players. They could occasionally get thirty or twenty yuan, which they held like treasures. Anyone who came to borrow it would have already “sold it out”.
As a result, Li Ye donated five thousand dollars at once. What a beast.
"What do you mean by taking money as if it's not money? I call that dedication, do you understand?"
Li Ye said in a stern voice: "I'm telling you! I will soon be a member of the organization, and I will frame you and say that you have no spirit of dedication."
"Fuck~"
Li Huaisheng said contemptuously: "I, Old Li, don't have ten dollars in my pocket. I have nothing but a red heart. Where did the money go? Comrade, you should provide evidence when you speak."
“.”
. . . . . .
Li Ye, Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin rode two bicycles and headed south for more than ten miles, which made the two freeloaders very angry.
"Hey, little brother, are you feeling uneasy, or do you want to treat us to a meal at Dong Lai Shun? We are almost at the Forbidden City!"
"If you guys can eat more, after three bowls of noodles, we'll go to Donglaishun. We're at the front."
Li Ye led the two of them to the entrance of an alley east of the Beijing Zoo, stopped the car and went into a "Chen's Noodle Restaurant".
This is the small restaurant opened by Jiang Xiaoyan's mother Chen Jinhua. Because Wen Leyu, Li Yue and Jiang Xiaoyan went to the countryside to pick peaches today, Li Ye came here to wait for her.
Inviting two shameless freeloaders to eat noodles was one for convenience, and the other was for some other plans.
"You are such a stingy person. You rode twenty miles just to eat at this little restaurant?"
Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin grinned, but still followed him into the noodle shop.
But when I entered the noodle shop, I found that although the shop was small, it was very clean, and there was also a glass cabinet with side dishes such as pork and braised eggs. It was obvious that it did not only sell noodles.
The two were just about to order dishes and charge Li Ye a lot of money when they saw a woman from the kitchen sticking her head out.
"It's Li Ye. Come and sit down. Have you eaten? Wait a moment. I'll make you a bowl of cold egg noodles."
Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin quickly shut up. They usually joked with Li Ye in an inappropriate way, but they must not embarrass Li Ye in front of acquaintances.
"Auntie, no mutton noodles today?"
"It's too hot, no one wants to eat mutton noodles! Mutton can't be kept in this weather, so I didn't make it. If you want to eat it, I'll go now."
"No need, Auntie. I'm just asking. Give us six bowls of cold noodles first, and two plates of pork head meat."
"Six bowls? Then wait a moment! It will be quick."
It was only then that Chen Jinhua realized that the two people behind her also came with Li Ye. She quickly started rolling noodles and boiling water, and was busy for a while.
Li Huaisheng then asked Li Ye in a low voice: "Do you know the boss here?"
Li Ye said: "My classmate's mother missed her child so much after he went to school in Beijing that she fell seriously ill. Later, my classmate and her mother decided to come to Beijing together."
After hearing about Jiang Xiaoyan and her daughter's story, Li Huaisheng immediately gave a thumbs up: "Great, parents all over the world are compassionate. Your classmate is also responsible. Most people really can't make up their minds to take their mother to Beijing to make a living."
After hearing what Li Ye said, Yang Yumin became interested: "Li Ye, do you think my mother can gain a foothold in the capital?"
Li Ye said: "As long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely be able to gain a foothold. If you really want to come, come as soon as possible. When there are more people from other places, it will become more and more difficult. In just this year, the rent has increased by 20%."
"That's right. It's not easy to live in the capital."
Yang Yumin fell silent, as if thinking about something.
After a while, Chen Jinhua brought up three bowls of cold noodles topped with cucumbers, carrots and chopped peanuts. The green and red colors, aroma and flavor were all in full bloom, and very appetizing in this August weather.
The three of them ate voraciously. Li Huaisheng actually ate three bowls, while the noisy Yang Yumin only ate two bowls.
When they were almost done eating, Li Yue drove his Volga and stopped outside the alley.
Jiang Xiaoyan was carrying a big basket in one hand, Li Yue and Wen Leyu were carrying a big bamboo basket each, and the three of them walked into the restaurant laughing.
When Li Yue saw Li Ye, she immediately acted like an older sister and said, "Xiao Ye, are you still eating there? Why don't you come over and give me a hand? You have no sense at all."
"No, no, I can do it. He hasn't finished eating yet!"
Before Li Ye could even move, Jiang Xiaoyan put down her basket and rushed back, replacing Wen Leyu, and together with her sister, carried a large basket of vegetables into the kitchen.
Yang Yumin was more attentive. Seeing so many vegetables, he asked Li Ye: "Is this noodle shop doing good business? In this kind of weather, the vegetables won't last for many days!"
Li Ye whispered, "It depends on the location and the taste, but I think it shouldn't be difficult to buy a house in two or three years. I saw a yard in Zhongguancun last year, and it was only 4,500!"
"Four thousand five?"
Yang Yumin began to do some calculations in his mind. He was the chief writer of "The Lone Soldier Looking Back to Hometown" and he received a lot of royalties from the publishing house.
But no matter how he calculated, there was still a big gap from four thousand five.
Finally, he looked at Li Ye: "Li Ye, how much do you think the film and television copyright of our "Hometown Lonely Army" can be sold for?"
Li Ye thought to himself, you finally got it. If you hadn't gotten it, I wouldn't be able to help you get here.
Now the filming of "Homesick" is clearly a foregone conclusion, but the TV station and Wu Culture Communication Group are very powerful, and Peking University thinks it is just a copyright issue and does not care about it at all.
If your chief editor doesn't fight for himself, who will take the initiative to give you more money?
If you can get an extra eight or ten thousand dollars, even if the school gets one or two thousand, and you, the chief editor, get two hundred, wouldn't that be enough if you exchange it on the black market?
At this time, Li Yue finished his work and came out to greet Li Ye and others cheerfully.
"Xiao Ye, is this your friend?"
"He's my classmate, and we wrote novels together in the literature club."
Then Li Ye introduced the two brothers: "This is my sister Li Yue, and that is my classmate Jiang Xiaoyan, from Beijing Aviation College. They are both sales representatives of Pengcheng Seventh Factory. If you need to buy new skirts or clothes when you find a partner, just look for them."
"Hello, I'm Li Huaisheng. We really like our little brother Li Ye, hehe."
"Hello, sister. My name is Yang Yumin. Although I usually call Li Ye my little brother, he actually helped us a lot, especially in writing. You don't know! At first, our literature club couldn't publish anything we wrote, but after Li Ye came..."
Li Huaisheng: “.”
Li Ye: “.”
My goodness, Lao Yang, how old are you this year? Calling someone "sister"? Do you have any shame?
Li Ye watched coldly, his fingers clenched and snapping.
He brought the two of them here for dinner today with the idea of integrating his network. After all, Jiang Xiaoyan and her sister Li Yue will both develop in Beijing in the future, so one more friend means one more way.
But now it seems that Yang Yumin, who is usually honest, is not quite genuine!
[Pfft, look at my fist]
(End of this chapter)
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